Word: buildings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...morning last week President Hoover read this press headline: MARINES BUILDING CAMP FOR HOOVER. The accompanying story implied that the President had ordered the Marine guard of 40 men from the abandoned Mayflower to his Shenandoah National Park camp site to build his Lodge, repair roads. Quickly the President despatched Secretary George Akerson to the Press to make this announcement: "Every nail and every board in the President's camp was paid for by Herbert Hoover out of his own pocket. . . . The roads to the camp were built by the State of Virginia. . . . The Marine detail is the usual...
Rather than demote General Manager Annenberg, a new title of Business Manager was created for the man now called in to build up Liberty's advertising. And the man is an oldtime Liberty counsellor, the best in the business, grey-haired James O'Shaughnessy, longtime Executive Secretary of the American Association of Advertising Agencies (Four A's), famed as a goodwill-maker as well as for his knowledge of advertising, one of the most universally popular practitioners in a highly temperamental profession...
...Spent $10,000,000 in expansion in last three years, acquired seven smaller bakeries east of the Mississippi last year; plans to build six new plants in 1929 and 1930) Net income...
...Davies), a group which spurred the militant Society of Independent Artists and encouraged U. S. painting as such. Within a few hours of Artist Henri's death, a Henri memorial association was formed at the artist colony of Santa Fe, N. Mex. Object: $2,000,000 to build in Manhattan a gallery such as Artist Henri had often dreamed of-devoted exclusively to U. S. painting...
...Perl plan is to build a 22-ft. duralumin fuselage shaped like a dirigible, hermetically sealed. Inside would be a compressor which would supply air at sea level pressure and warm it for the pilot and the motor (which would be within the fuselage). Outside would be the propeller, wings resembling those of a flying fish, and tail fins. Landing wheels would be retracted into the body...